Rozay's "Nobody" video hit MTV Jams and the Internet this week, and the Christopher Sims-directed clip kicks off with a cinematic retelling of the January 2013 drive-by shooting that targeted the Miami rapper.
The latest single off of Ross' upcoming March 4 album, Mastermind,"Nobody" borrows from the Notorious B.I.G.'s 1997 track "You're Nobody (Til Somebody Kills You)" and features Biggie's mentor, Diddy, as well as French Montana on the hook. The cinematic clip follows a murderous double-cross with the Maybach Music CEO narrating the story.
Puff sets things off in the clip with the song's opening monologue. As detectives watch him on a surveillance monitor, the Bad Boy CEO chastises a couple of his associates. "You wanted to f--kin' walk around these roaches. These n---as is roaches, these n---as is mere motherf--kin' mortals," he sneers. "I'm trying to push you to supreme being."
French delivers his soulful croon of a hook from an interrogation room as a police officer tapes his statement. Meanwhile, Ross — dressed in a black sports jacket and white collared shirt — in true boss fashion, lights a cigar as he begins his testimony. "Blast for me, the last words from my n---a/ On the pavement, born killers, body shivers," he spits in a flow that pays homage to the late Biggie Smalls.
"I went back and listened to the Big record in a totally different way," Rozay said in a WorldStarHipHop.com viral video that also served as the song's premiere on February 19. "At the end of the day, regardless of how graphic it may be, it's a beautiful piece of art. It's a beautiful art sculpture. Its original creator was the Notorious B.I.G.; I just came and I put my hands on it."
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